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Succotash Chats Epi150: Sesquicentennialin' with Jordan Brady

Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, was launched in 2011 with the idea of promoting comedy soundcasts in what was then a marketplace still trying to find its way. By featuring short clips of shows being produced by funny folks both known and unknown, we like to feel that we maybe had a little tiny, eeny weeny, itsy bitsy bit to do with helping to ignite the torch of soundcasts across the globe! (But then we've always had a rather high opinion of ourselves...)

Original show host and executive producer Marc Hershon, along with booth announcer Bill Heywatt, engineer/producer Joe Paulino, associate producer Tyson Saner, musical director Scott Carvey, and booth assistant Kenny Durgis have kept the flame alive o'er these many years. In 2018, Hershon abandoned the host chair and anointed Saner to the position, with nary a notice from the legions of listeners. Typical.

Hello,
friend, it IS I, Marc Hershon, your host and adorable Lapso Apso
for our sesquicentennial installment – that’s Epi150 to you and me
– of Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast. It’s also
the 6th anniversary of this show being on the web!

This
particular listening experience is a Succotash
"Chatisode", and features third time returning special guest
Jordan Brady!

Jordan
has just started galavanting around the good ol’ US of A to show
off his newest documentary, I Am Battle Comic, the third
chapter of his trilogy looking at the lives and careers, and the
hopes and dreams, as well as the pain and suffering, of
comedians.

The
first was I Am Comic which, you might recall from just a
couple of episodes ago, focused on the efforts of our guest
Ritch Shydner trying to re-ignite what had once
been a pretty successful standup comedy career. The followup to
that was I Am Road Comic, about the trials and
tribulations of a comedian working the road today. That film
featured another triple visit guest, Wayne
Federman.

You can
likely guess the focus of his new film, I Am Battle Comic
– it’s about stand-up comedians who muster up the courage to head
into some of the gnarliest war zones that our men and women of the
Armed Forces are stationed. The only reason to do so is to bring a
few laughs into the lives of the servicemen and women in these
god-forsaken hellholes, some of whom are stationed away from home
for many months or even years at a time.

Here's
the red band trailer for the movie…

The
movie isn’t available for download yet – Jordan talks about when
you can expect that in our interview – but he is traveling around,
renting out theaters in different places around the country and
showing. He often has one or more of the comedians featured in the
film with him, too.

In
addition to Jordan Brady, we’ve got a double dose of our Burst
O’ Durst with our resident political wonk & cultural
observer Will Durst coming up in this episode.
We also say goodbye to comedian Don Rickles, who
passed away this week at the of 90, and play a bit from his 1969
album Don Rickles Speaks!

This
episode is brought to you by Henderson's Pants and their seasonal
Spring Breakers.

This
show marks Succotash's 6th year of soundcasting — 150
episodes — and I want to thank you for your support. But as the
world of soundcasting grows ever larger, your support is more
important than ever. 5-star ratings iTunes rating, for instance,
make a big difference in visibility for the show, and your glowing
reviews make me wriggle like a happy puppy.

We have
never had a real paying sponsor for Succotash in
the half-dozen years we've been going. A number of you,
fortunately, have made use of the Donate button on our homesite. Or
shopped on Amazon via the banner at the top of that very same
homesite. Or some have even, in a few cases, purched some merch
from the Succotashery.

But
financial support has come mostly from my own wallet. Operational
costs aren't much — $30 bucks a month for web hosting, another $30
every month for publicity, then the odd purchase of promotional
merch. Still, it adds up and I hope that if you enjoy listening to
Succotash as much as I enjoy putting it out there, that
you might feel right ponying up a few sheckels to help pull this
thing together.

We'll be
back with an episode of Succotash Clips soon. If you're a
comedy soundcaster and you'd like us to feature your show, you can
upload a 3-5 minute MP3 clip directly to us at http://hightail.com/u/Succotash.
And you can always email me at marc@SuccotashShow.com